THE CHILD'S By C. E. "Now I loy me," toftly, faintly, Came the wurda from llpa Ri'own white, Vhlle the nmrimtr of the river Hounded tliroutfh the ellunt nljfUt. "Down to aleep ;" the alcep waa drcanilcae, That wan stealing o'er her now ; Blower gxow the Out fling heart bimta, Di'uth dnnjp gathered ou her brow. pray the l.ord"- -the di-ar Lord atnad- ltix. All urmeen, DMlde her bed. Knew lllmxelf the patitfn of dying Had Uluieelf elopt with the di'Ud, "Mt boh! to keep." Pear child, be keepa It Hafcly In Ilia gentle bund ; Kerne It for ft nlnco In heaven, 'Along the Binning Beniph baud. The Travelers Dream. By L. I. a44,4,ttt4-tti''M' This is the tale of my friend. What advice would you have given to htm? I had engaged myself to spend Chris mas at Lanfair, and as I love to travel on foot I had informed John Lanfair that I would arrive on the 23d of De cember, after enjoying a short walk ing tour in his beautiful section. On the morning of the day which I had named I was within twenty miles of Mr. Lanfalr's residence, and doubt ed not that I should reach It long ere" nightfall. The day came on very Btormy, but I did not fear a strife with the elements, and I swore that I would not yield. Alone and on foot I had determined to arrive, and. in no other manner would I accomplish my journey's end. But I was forced to go slowly; more than once I missed the direct road, and night descended early, still further dejaylng my progress. I struggled forward, but at length I was sufficient ly candid to own that my position waa unpleasant. I had lost my way; I seemed to be in the midst of a des ert; I was pretty well soaked and the wind waa almost sweeping me off my legs as its gusts ever increased in violence. I was traversing a narrow road of the roughest description that ran through a little piece of wood, and that would, I hoped, bring me to some farmhouse, when for the space of an Instant the clouds were blown from the face of the moon, and my eyes could see what lay before me walls bare, ruined walls, standing upright In naked ugliness, and presenting in the midst of the tempest a picture of desolation that was perfect. The moonbeams faded, and I was again plunged into utter darkness. So wretched was now my condition that even in these miserable walls I Bought for shelter. I groped along them, guiding myself by my hands, and my search was not in vain. I stumbled agaliiBt a doorBtep; the door was open. I passed through, and at least I had a roof over my head. Such a shrudder as I never remember to have suffered before shook my limbs and body as I crossed the threshold of this chamber of refuge, but I heeded It not. I am an experienced traveler, and I know how to keep dry through all weather my matches, my tiny lantern, and my tobacco. I lighted my lamp and gazed at my surroundings. Soon I decided tlrat I was in a cottage that must have adjoined a larger house, and that the larger house had been burned down, while the cottage had escaped; there was no pane of glass In its windows, the door was off its hinges, and the floor was covered with the twigs and dead leaves that the winds had strewn upon Its surface. Happily there was a fireplace in which I was able to make a blaze, using for the purpose broken bits of wood, and thus I slowly dried my damp clothing, while I refreshed my self with some sandwiches which I had brought for a possible emergency. The tempest without roared wilder, hut the warmth stole over me, over powered with fatigue, and at last I dropped into an uneasy sleep.' My slumbers were disturbed by the most vivid dream that I have in all my life experienced. I heard a distant clock strike three, and I felt myself oppressed by a heavy sense of suffo cation. I saw the door of the room In wehlch I lay open noiselessly, inch by inch, and then as I watched there appeared In my vision the face of a man. It was a face that will live with me till the day I die, with its black, piercing eyes, its thin features, and a mouth closely shut as If to retain its secrets. From the lips of the appari tion issued a laugh, mocking, derisive, triumphant; then it turned away, and the sound of the key revolving in the lock was plainly audible. Audible, too, were the footsteps of my visitor as he retreated; they were those of one who trod heavily, and who limped. I can swear that he limped. The sense of suffocation over, came me more and more, and now I perceived that the room was filling with smoke, which poured in through every open chink in flooring, door and window. A flash of flame, and the full horror of my state burst upon me. I was about to be burned alive? In my agony of fear I rushed to the door! It was locked; It resisted all my efforts! My enemy had doomed me to destruction in this horrible man ner with a cruelty-too coldblooded for fiend! Now I understood the meaning of hi laugh. I was to be swept from his path, and he knew that he had chirred his murderous purpose. LAST PRAYER, Bollci. "If I ahold die" e'en now she atandeth dn the rlver'a mltity shore: Only tbla one crossing over, And she taatetu death no more. "Before I wake" that bliss of waking Never mortal lips have told ; SuntH of anuria, palms of glory, llurpa and crowua of purest gold. "I pray the Lord" He cloBer beudeth, With a smile of tender love ; Walts to bear that pure, white fplrlt, To the better home above. "Mr soul to take." He takes It gladly, where no sin can ever mar, To that land of peace eternal, Just beyond the evening star. DESLEIGH. I awoke trembling. I struck a light and consulted my watch. I felt no wonder when I found that It was a few minutes after three o'clock in the morning. I remembered that I actual ly gazed around In nervous alarm, lest the smoke and flames should be pres ent This was a chimera; still, so painfully had my dream impressed me that I spent the hours that had to elapse before the day broke In con tinual apprehension of approaching disaster. But nothing happened; the storm abated, and then ceased, and with the first glimmer of light I Joy fully quitted the cottage, expressing the earnest wish that I might see it never again. It was not long before I met with a farm hand going to his early work, and by him I was conducted to the house of his employer, a Jolly farmer, who acted toward me as the best of good Samaritans. He fed me, and he clothed me; he drove me In his dog cart to Lanfair, explaining that he was one of Mr. John Lanfalr's tenants, but one thing neither he nor his employe would do they would neither of them allow me to speak of the habitation in which I had spent the previous night. Each uttered the same single exclamation when I sought to tell my story: "You must have stopped at Deadlake Farm!" and with that they closed the subject In a peremptory fashion. Well, Mr. John Lanfair should resolve the mystery. It was afternoon. My host and I were sitting in his library, with the sun beginning to sink toward the west, and radiating Its golden lights, when with the following words my compan ion narrated the story of Deadlake Farm: "Until Borne two years ago, Dead lake Farm was occupied by a young farmer named Blythe, who was mar ried to a charming wife, and who only needed children to complete his happiness. No man In the neighbor hood was more liked and respected, and no woman was more admired. In deed, I doubt If I ever set eyes on o perfect a type of rustic beauty as Mrs. Blythe. Troubles never came near to the fortunate couple, who would have been the subject of envy had they been less amiable, but their neighbors sin cerely rejoiced In their prosperity. How often have I heard the remark' pass round that BIythe's presence at any social gathering made the whole scene looktbright. , "Then, without the least warning, the thunderbolt fell. Mrs., Blythe left her home with a companion bo much she declared In a letter but of that com? panion's identity the husband had not even a suspicion. "Poor BIythe's distress was fright ful to witness, and for a time I feared that his mental powers would alto gether give away; but this did not occur, and he settled down Into a state of sullen, savage gloom. Then he also quitted Deadlake, bent, 88 it was commonly believed, upon finding his wife, and avenging himself upon the man who had done him such In famous wrong. "He was absent for some weeks, and on his return he was resolutely silent about his proceedings. We did not know then, we do not know at this moment, whether he met with the guilty pair. It is all a matter of con jecture. But Blythe now settled him self at Deadlake, and there he re sided in absolute solitude; he would not allow even a servant to sleep in the house, and he avoided all inter course with his neighbors with scrupu lous care. It is proboble that since he came back from his quest, success ful or otherwise, no human being but himself ever crossed the threshold of Deadlake farmhouse. And so matters went on till on the night of the twenty-third of December last year the farm was burned down, and reduced to the total ruin which you have seen." I started. "Why, then," I said, "last night was the first anniversary of the fire. "Certainly," said my host. "And what became of Mr. Blythe?" "I cannot tell you," said Mr. Lan fair, gravely; "his fate !e wrapped up in profound obscurity." "But there is no theory on such a question?" "You have observed for yourself that people shrink from speaking of the subject They .regard it as un lucky " "But In spite of their superstition they must entertain some opinion," I said. , , "I Imagine," said my host, "that if you could, gain possession of their in most thoughts you would find that most of them are convinced that Blythe, quite overcome by misery, re set t0 destroy the house in which he had once been so happy, and thai the fire was his own work." "And he himself perished in' the flames?" I exclaimed. "Yes; but I hold It more likely my self that Blythe made up his mind to leave the neighborhood secretly, and without allowing his future destina tion to be suspected. As to the fire, It may have been intentional or acci dental." "There is another posslbillty,-"I said; "the house may have been fired by an enemy, who desired BIythe's destruc tion." My host shrugged his broad shoul ders. - "Nothing is known; your imagina tion may run riot as it pleases." "Suppose," I continued, with the memory of my dream recurring to me with extraordinary vividness, "the man who stole Mr. BIythe's wife to be liv ing in fear of the husband's venge ance. Suppose him to come in the dead of night to inclose bis victim in a locked chamber from which there was no escape, and then to kindle the fatal flames!" Mr., Lanfair, for a Becond time, shrugged his shoulders, and then, as true as there is a Heaven above us, there struck upon my ears the sounds of footsteps advancing, with the exact, the unmistakable limp that had beat upon my ears during the preceding night. Slowly the door of the library opened, and there In the full flood of the sunshine was the very face which had haunted me in the storm and darkness. There were the piercing eyes, the thin features, and the secret mouth; I almost uttered a scream In my amazement. I just managed to control myself. x "Who Is it?" I asked, but my host did not notice my feverish agitation. "My secretary," he answered; "my confidential secretary." And that secretary has been in Mr. Lanfalr's employment for years, and Is esteemed one of the best of men. Now, should I tell my host of my strange dream? , Such was the question my friend put to me a question I have not been able to answer. New York Weekly. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The number of timber sleepers on the railways of the world is calculat ed to be about 1,494,000,000, and their value is estimated at about $900,000, 000. The making of shoes for dogs has now developed Into quite a big indus try and is especially flourishing In Labrador. ' The dogs attached to sledges travel at a great speed over the rough ice and some protection (for the feet is necessary. The shoes are made of sealskin. A bald eagle weighing 65 pounds and measuring eight feet from tip to tip was turned loose in the streets of Hutchinson, Kan., recently by the Hutchinson lodge of Eagles. A metal band was placed around the bird's, leg bearing the Inscription, "I am a mem ber of Hutchinson's aerie of Eagles." The Scientific American tells of an other remarkable fent in house mov ing. A brick house at Sharpsburcg, Penn., was moved to Alleghany, a dis tance of four miles. Most of this was by water, the house being loaded onto a huge coal barge and floated down the river. It Is probable that as In most such cases, it coBt far more to move the house than to have rebuilt It new. The builders are at work on a stone viaduct at Plauen, Saxony, over the River Syra, which contains the long est masonry arch In the world, Its length being 295 feet 6 inches, meas ured horizontally from base to base. Trie Luxembourg bridge across the val ley of Petruffe which was completed a few months ago, has a Bpan of 277 feet. The next longest masonry arch is in the United States, near Washing ton, and Is known as the Cabin John Bridge. Its length of span is 220 feet. Patlcrewskl, the famous pianist, says that his fingers are as precious to him as life, for ho could never play If he lost any of them. He takes Insur ance from time to time to cover special risks, as when he Is going on a long Journey by land or sea, but apart from these his two hands are regularly in sured from year to year. He pays $4000 annually In this way, with the result that If anything went wrong with one of his precious hands at any time so that he could no longer earn an income by his playing, he would be paid $50,000 cash. An English paper tells how on one occasion Jbseph Chamberlain was In vited to Liverpool to make a speech. It was to be a great celebration. The mayor, who was to preside at the meeting, had arranged a fine dinner for the guest of honor. A distingu ished assembly surrounded the table, and at the right of the host sat Mr, Chamberlain. For a couple of hourj the company chatted over their food, and finally, the coffee was served. 1 was . at this Juncture that the mayoi leaned over and whispered to Mr Chamberlain: "Your excellency, shall we let the crowd enjoy itself a whilf longer; or had we better have youf speech?" A Prophet Without Honor. "John, you'd beiter take your um brella," said the editor's wife. " 'Tisn't going to rain, mother," re plied the editor's son. "Your father says it looks like it." "Yes, mother, ,but you must remem ber that father said right up into No vember that everything indicated that the country was very close politically." Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, When War Ceases How Are We to Handle the Enormously q Increasing Population That Will Hfisult. By George Harvey, Editor of Harper's Weekly. j T is a very interesting subject the Increasing pressure of population upon the earth's capacity for supporting it which' is discussed in the International Quarterly by Pro- T T teacm- XT O 01nlar t i ! the chair of geology In Harvard University. The present number of the earth's Inhabitants is computed at 1,G00,000, 000, and It is likely to Increase hereafter, owing to the elim. inntlon of pestilence and chronic war, at a rate considerably ereater than the averaue rate at which it has Increased during the last three centuries. It Is certain, on the other hend, that the quan tity of tillable soil upon the earth, as well as the stock of other things neces sary for man such as Iron, coal, petroleum, copper and other metals or min erals Is far from boundless. When will the demand threaten to exceed tho supply? Professor Shaler calculates that, as regards the earth's agricultural re sources, the soil, which, without any considerable engineering work, could now be put under the plough, would support In tolerable comfort abuot 4,000,000; 000 human Jieings. He further estimates that by drainage, carried out on the systematic and scientific plan which has been applied to Holland, we could odd to the tillable area of the United States rather more than 100,000 square miles. ' What we are to do eventually for coal, petroleum and Iron is a question less easily answered. We are reminded that iu the United Stats today the average annual output of iron Is estimated at 4'JO pounds for every man, wom an and child, whereas four centuries ago the needs of men In the most high ly civilized country were satisfied with about four pounds a year per capita. If the consumption of Iron goes on increasing, where are we to find the ore? As for coal, the exhausting of the mines In England and In the anthracite dis tricts of Pennsylvania is wilhln measurable distance, and vast as is the stock of the bituminous combustible In the UnltetJ States and China, how long would it meet the wants of 4,000,000,000 human beings? For the maintenance of the recent output of petroleum, the discovery of new deposits is recognized as indispensable. If we may judge from experlnce, it is improbable that any' of the oil-yielding districts already drawn upon in North America and Russia will be productive at the close of the 20th century. The Ideal of Womanly Beauty By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. EAUTY seems to have iSm Tl Venus of Milo or any other classic Venus to drop her marble l&?Wfe " immnhlllrv. unit pnmo tn lifp today. I have no doubt she would be more criticised than admired. Personally I admire dark men and fair women. , Whether she possesses the qualities or not, woman Is supposed to typify light and hope to suggest the angel, in fact and angels are always represented as fair, because they dwell In Realms of Light. Man typifies power, strength, force and we naturally associate these attributes with dark men, rather than with blondes. , A blonde may be an intellectual glnnt, but there is almost invariably a pronounced weakness in his character which makes him less a manly man than his swarthier brother. My Ideal of a beautiful woman, the type of woman who would most at tract me were I a man, Is one not under five feet four and a half inches, not over five feet five, In ber walking shoes. Her "net" weight is between 135 and 140 pounds; hair any shade'from light lustrous brown to sliver blonde the latter preferable. Eyes like crushed violets, with slight shadows underneath; a mere suspicion of a tilt to a Grecian nose just enough to save it from severity of line; a low brow, a rounded chin, full lips, with upturned corners, and an expression at once aminble and Intelligent, but not intellectual. ,, Let the intellect be discovered it must not be aggressively assertive. The background for this picture must be a skin of delicate quality and as suggestive of refined care as the teeth and hair. The whole personality must radiate health, and through the features must shine a good, loving and sympathetic heart, or else the possessor is only a well-graven Image, not a beautiful woman. While this is my Ideal, yo,t I know scores of beautiful women who are quite dissimilar, as I know scores of beautiful flowers which are not the car nation pink or the rose. New York Americnn. f JZ? JZ? jZ? 1 j& : : Secrets of The Hand : : People May Control Their Countenances, But Not the Expression of Their Hands. By Helen Keller. HE handshake of some people makes you think of accident J . j and sudden death. Contrast this ill-boding hand with 'he X r 9 quick, skillful, quiet hand of a nurse whom I remember with I I 2 affection because she took the best care cf my teacher. I J x 'iave clasped the hands of some rich people that spin not f ond toll not, and yet are not benutiful. Beneath their toft, smooth roundness what a chaoB of undeveloped character! X All this Is my private science of palmistry, and when I tell your fortune It is by no mysterious Intuition or gypsy witchcraft, but by natural, explicable recognition of the embossed character In your hand. Not only is the hand as easy to recognize as the face, but it reveals Its secrets more openly and unconsciously. People control their coun tenances, but the hand is under no such restraint. It relaxes and becomes listless when the spirit Is low and dejected; the muscles tighten when the mind is excited or the heart glad; and permanent qualities stand written on It all the time. As there are many beauties of the face, so the beauties of the hand are many. Touch has its ecstacles. The hands of people of strong individual ity and sensitiveness are wonderfully mobile. In a glance of their finger-tips they express many shades of thought Now and apain I touch a fine, grace ful, supple-wristed hand which spells with the same beauty and distinction that you must see In the handwriting of some highly cultivated people. I wish you could see how prettily little children spell in my hand. They are wild flowers of humanity, and their finger motions wild flowers of speecn. The Century. & ..The.. Glory of the United States j By Jinatole Leroy'tseauiieu. O my view, what makes the greatness of the United States among the nations is less its tremendous economic develop ment than Its political Institutions and its consciousness of liberty in every field of action and life. This comes back to saying that what has made its greatness is less the T Hi I country ltBelf than the men who inhabit it. It is less the I great expanse of its territory and its natural resources of I soil and of wealth underground than the qualities aad he energies of the people nlalnn anil the beautiful mountains of Nature had provided between the 'two oceans for a great empire and a great nation. But for this empire to be born and for this nation to take form, live and prosper, it was necessary that it should be inhabited by people capable ot exploiting and binding together these vast expanses. In this sense one might say that It is the American who has made America, although between the Atlantic and .the Pacific, as elsewhere, there was a mutual influence of men on the land, and the iand on men. But as great as this last was, the first seems to have been even more powerful, and this is one of the cause, which from my point of view, bring about the originality and the superiority of the United States. The causes of its success and of causes due to the generosity of nature moral causes, due to the character, the nterprlse of Americans. wlin It liinv lifl FPITIP mlieted. OCCUTlieS JZ? no established standards. Were the JZ? who have cultivated the magnificent North America, and made them pay. its greatness are not merely material toward it They are, above all others education, the energy and the spirit of To Improve Poultry. Make It a point from now on never to .use a poor, Ill-bred roonter to breed from. You will not have to waltlong for your flock to pay a better profit. Cooked Meat for Poultry. In the poultry test conducted in this state under the management of Cornell university, the winning fowls were largely, if not almost entirely fed upon wheat and cooked meat. The one In charge of the fowls was able to secure this meat at very little cost, and the fowls were fed about all they would eat of this, the result being that the birds fed upon the cooked meat were credited with the largest egg yield in the test. New York Weekly Witness. Hot Water In the Dairy. Hot water should be freely used In the dairy In the place of warm water or luke-wnrm water. The lukewarm water 1s less effective In Its work. It Is claimed that hot water Is even more effective In the cleansing of some dairy utensils than Is steam, as the steam condenses when it cools and the mois ture that tails on the sides of the utensils, If they are shut up, causes them to rust. Hot water causes the metal utensils to become so hot that they dry off almost Instantly when they are taken out of the water. We are convinced that hot water Is not used to the extent It should be. It is a perfect germicide If it Is left In contact with the utensils long enough to bring everything up to near the boiling degree. When cold dishes are dropped into hot water It Is quick ly cooled off, and so Is soon reduced below the point where germs are kill ed. It takes at least 140 degrees to kill typhoid germs and more that that to kill the germs of tuberculosis, and even still greater heat todispose of all the spores of the various kinds of ferments. If a person will have the water Just as hot as the hands can be put into and not be scalded and then put In a thermometer, the tempeiature will be found to be from 115 to 120 degrees. It takes 20 more degrees of heat to kill the weakest of the germs we fear. Water at 150 degrees appears to be very hot to the one that is using it, and that Is the trouble. The so-called hot water Is really more than 50 de grees below the boiling point oft times. Such water does not fully do the work Intended to be done. The thermometer is the only safe indicator of the degree of heat in the water. The dairy should be equipped with some kind of apparatus for furnishing a good lot of hot water at short notice. There are laundry stoves with coils in them. These can be connected with a common forty-gallon boiler and used to give water where considerable quantities are needed. The invest ment is but a small matter, and the results are most excellent. Nitrogen Fertilizers. Maryland station experiments with nitrogenous fertilizers are published In a bulletin that discusses the early use of nitrogenous fertilisers, the im portance of nitrogen as a plant food, loss of nitrogen from the soil, general conditions indicating tho need of hitrogen, quantity of nitrogen annually removed from Maryland farms, the or igin and supply of nitrogen in soils, condition of the nitrogen of soils, nitrification, sources of nitrogen, the use of the free nitrogen of the atmos phere by plants, and artificial inocu lation. The object was to compare different times of applying nitrate of soda, just before planting with and without lime, at period of most active growth, and one-half before planting and one-half at a time of most active growth, to test the comparative effects of nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia and of lime applied with ammonia and of lime applied with mineral sources of nitrogen, to compare nitrate of soda combined with sulphate of potash with nitrate of potash, to compare different sources of organic nitrogen, including dried blood, raw and dissolved hair waste, bone tankage, dried fish, cotton seed meal and stable manure, and to test the effect of treating hair and tier waste with acid. The materials were applied in imounts supplying 32 pounds cf cltro jen per acre. The crop3 for which lata are given are corn, T.'heat and lay. The results In general favor the ap lication ot nitrate of soda before Wanting rather than after the crop is partially grown, and indicate that a top-dressing of this substance pays well as a rule on wheat which for any cause, either poor land or from late seeding, is backward In the spring, although Its use is of doubtful benefit on Iand which is well supplied with plant food. Nitrate of soda gave uniformly and decidedly better results than sulphate of ammonia, both with and without lime. Nitrate of potash gave better results than nitrate ot soda combined with a potash salt (sulphate), but the advan tage was not great enough to warrant the difference in cost .which usually prevails. The organic sources of nitrogen were not as active as nitrate ot soda. Of the three principal forms tested blood stood first as regard effective ness, leather second and hair last Mirror and Farmer. Time to Call a Halt. During the course of a long ride through a prosperous county of west ern Ohio one of the most remarkable things to be seen is the abundance of form machinery, not In use nor stored In barns and shed, but out in the fields and barnyards. It would seem to the stranger that everyone was too busy to properly house his implements or else lacked shed room for them. A flying view of several states from car windows disclosed the fact that care less farmers everywhere leave their tools to the mercy of wind and weath er till fall, and in many cases the year round. It is time to call a halt on buying machinery if there Is no room for it in dry sheds or if the owner is too careless to get it under cover. We are enjoying unbounded prosperity, but that is no excuse for recklessness. If hard times should strike our country many a farmer would sigh for the money he wasted during the years of plenty. A good machine Is a profit able investment If It receives good care, and pays for Itself by" years of service, but when rust eats up the iron, and sun and wind play havoo with wood, no machine can pay div idends to any but the dealer who sold It, and the manufacturer. If there is anything more untidy than cultivators overgrown with weeds and rusty mowers in fence corners, no one has yet discovered it. The thrift less man tells about his neighbor's good luck and wonders why his mach inery is always ready for use. The mortgage on the home is often placed there because the owner invested too heavily in machinery and fiii not take care of it. I saw a young woman out hoeing potatoes In her bare feet not long ago, while in the barnyard stood an expensive wagon her husband had Just had bought. The old wagon was safely housed under some trees and there, was no place for the new one in the rickety shed. Manifestly this man should have called a halt long ago. The old wagon properly cared for would havo given a dozen more years of ser vice, and the time spent tinkering with machinery ruined by the weather would have been sufficient to hoe all the crops on the place. When the sheriff takes charge of that man's af fairs he will whine about bad luck, but his neighbors can tell a different story. , Have your Implements under sheds or In the barn so that when the rainy days come you may mend . trifling breaks and keep them in good repair. No man can repair a piece of machin ery that Is a half mile trom the barn in a pourtng rain. It 'is so much easier for him to drive to town and order a new one frr thriftless people do busi ness Just that way. A small boy beg ged his father to buy a run-down farm not long ago, and when he was press ed for a reason, said, "Just think of the mojiey I would make selling old iron, for I know Mr. K would never pick up all his old machines." The father agreed with his son that if the owner had never gathered1 the implements together while they were in their prime he would hardly pick tip the remains of them; but he did dot buy the farm. Like the tools. It was run down till almost worthless, and even the valuable old Iron scat tered over it would hardly make it a profitable investment. If you haven't time to house your stuff, do without. It is cheaper to hire a neighbor than to waste expensive tools. Farmer's Review. Notes. From Many Sources. This is "book-farming," true enough, but it is the sort that is well to know. The banana produces to the acre 44 times more food than the potato, and 131 times more than wheat The nut trees alone of the world could at a pinch feed a population three times as great as the present number of inhabitants. ' It has been estimated than an oak cf average size, during the five months It is in leaf every year, sucks up from the earth about 123 tons of water. Success with stock, as with every thing elr.e, depends upon being gentle w.th thenn, and upon knowinj and un derstanding each animal individually. Old sows if properly cared for will raise larger litters of healthier pigs than youn3 sows with a flrstlitler. Will it net pay to Leep over two ar three of the best rather tian fatten a'l for market? A farmer from South Amerfoa ;n,d $10 an ear for some of the Itezl com exhibited at, the recent world s fair. He wanted quality and did not dicker about the price. That earn will pro'--ably he heard from. Statistics, supplemented by est. ates where statistics are not avaiiahU show that the average eash income t ' the 18,000 farmers cf Kansas is 52000 a year. Kansas has now about $103, 000,000 worth of live stock at work converting her rich grains and gras ses Into dollars, and her farmers have been quick to recognize the fact thct well bred stock constitute better machinery for this purpose than does the old-time scrub.
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